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There is another theory for neck pickup placement. Apparently when the pickup is fitted on the natural spot for a 22 fret neck guitar, it falls in the same spot where the 24th fret would be placed. Apparently this causes the pickup to miss a lot of the harmonic content of the note. You will notice this with single coils on a strat if you hit the 5th fret harmonic on an open string: you will be able to hear the full harmonic content in the first four positions but will hear less of it on the 5th position (neck).
If the pickup is fitted for a 24 fret neck it falls off of this spot and this artifact is less audible.
im not sure i understand